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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lady Dragon" data-source="post: 2009081" data-attributes="member: 3453">The statistics-This book is a 192 page hardcover with a black and white interior by Fast Forward Entertainment written By Timothy Brown and James Ward as well as several others.It costs $29.99.The Cover-The cover art is done by Larry Elmore. It features a beautiful female Drow holding a wicked looking polearm in one hand and she has a skull floating above her other hand.She is standing in front of what appears to be a stairway into the dungeon.This cover is excellent as good as anything I've seen in the industry.Of course I'm admittedly bias since I think Elmore is the best artist in the industry.Interior Artwork-The interior artwork in good  and the maps are clear and easy to understand.I think they are computer generated.The Idea-The premise behind this book is a campaign world that is similar to Ravenloft in that the character gets pulled out of his regular world after he "dies" and thrown into this new infinite Dungeon.The Dungeon is apparently an infinite plane located somewhere between life and death.The character has no equipment and is stark naked and somehow he has to escape from this purgatory.There is also a way for the rest of the party to join him fully clothed and armed.The content-The first part of the book expains about the premise,how to end up there and about the conditions inside the dungeon.It also talks about the other residents of Dungeon world as well as its masters,The "Caretakers" They appear to be godlike beings that run the joint.Similar to the "Powers"that run ravenloft.Except these "caretakers seem to take a more active role in what goes on in the dungeon.If a character wants to escape back to his own world he needs to complete a quest for these Caretakers.The first part also discusses clerics and how they slowly lose there abilities and lose contact with there deities.This therefore makes healing spells difficult to obtain.Characters get to Dungeonworld when they Die and the caretakers then send them to Dungeon world instead of wherever they would normaly go.There friends can join there fallen friend if they can figure out what has happened to there friend.There big hint being that his body doesn't decay.Campaign section-There is a relitivly short section on how to make this into a feasible campaign and how to add future supplements to this book.This section talks about living conditions in the dungeon and how to please the Caretakers.Monsters-There are 5 new monsters that serve the Caretakers,They are the naughty ones,mud urchins,Rock Brats.Maze bullys and tattlers.They serve the caretakers in various fashions.I didn't find any of them to be exceptional.The Dungeon-Starting on page 33 and going through page 181 is a massive 25 level dungeon.with mosters ranging from Orcs to Dragons to Demons,Devils and slaad.This dungeon features tons of treasure,lots of traps and varied enviorments.The first level features 10 temples to deities from varied pantheons.level 2 is called the orc warrens and it has a Demonic leader.This level is important because it is the level the character(s) are most likely to start though there are 7 other possible starting points.Level 3 is filled with tombs etc.Each room entry starts with a brief description of the purpose of the room.Followed by a section called Occupants with describes briefly who and what the occupants of the room are.If this is the first appearence of this type of creature the creatures stat block appears below.The stats appear to be typical D20 stat blocks.Next is a section labeled appointments which tells what furnishings are in the room.Finally each room entry has a section called treasure which lists what treasure can be found in this room.mixed in are a few more new monsters of various types.and lots of interesting levels such as the remaining pieces of the Altlantean empire and a level filled with Duergar which is basically a small city. Lots of the levels feature specific monster types such as undead,molds and slimes or Slaad.There is even an aquatic level,several Dragon lairs and a hideout for a long lost arch-devil.The quests-The book ends with a list of possible quests  that the Caretakers could  assign to the characters in exchange for there freedom and the right to access the portals out.The faults-First I would like to say that I like this book and by pointing out the faults I am not saying its not worth buying just that there are a few problems that some DM might need to fix before they use this product.First they give out waaaay to much treasure there is even an idol worth 1,000,000 gp.Ha! They also frequently use monsters and Magic items that appeared in some of Fast Forwards previous publications,  and other than basic stat blocks they do not repeat them here in this book instead they tell you to referrance the other book.Of course a clever DM could always change the monster or magic item to something more preferable.The biggest problem that I see however is they do not give any level suggestions.I personally think that the levels are meant for Higher level characters but the challenge rating are varied so lower level characters might be able to survive certain sections with a little luck.Overall I think this book is a cross between Undermountain and Ravenloft without the horror.You have to really like dugeon crawls to like this book but then with a title like Dungeon world I think that Dungeon crawl lovers are the target audience,and if you are a member of the target audience I don't think you will be to badly disappointed.Could they have done better yes they could have but it still a worthwhile product,even if you only want to use it for the dungeon or for a level or two in a more conventional campaign.Thanks for reading this my first attempt at posting a review.Lady Dragon.</blockquote>

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